The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-10
THE EVANGELICALS.
They Conclude Their Deliber-
atiOns on Friday.
SUBJECTS THEY TREATED OF
They Urge Cooperation, Suggest
Church and State separation and
Counsel Unity of Action.
The Alliance Conference.

WASHINGTON, December 9. - At the
opening of the Conference of Evangeli-
cal Alliance this morning, Rev. 3.
Storrs' paper on THE necessity of CO
operation in Christian work" was read
by Dr. Chamberlain, of Brooklyn, DR..
Storrs being Ill. The paper alludes to
the Derils arising from a misuse of
wealth, illiterscy, arrangement of
many from the church. The great thing
needed is to gather up and concentrate
our power.
Bishop Harris, of Michigan, said it
would be madness 10 remain divided in
this hour of DANGER He must be
equally opposed to imperialism and
socialism. The Bible, the Sabbath and
liberty of conscience must be defended
with Christ, our leader, indeed,
but with our own active coop
GRAFTON, as well, or we shall
go the way of other nations, whose
early history has been fair and promis-
ing. The kind of cooperation we adj
vocate is not political. Church and
State must be separate. Our common
school system is the peculiar product
of our Anglo -American-Saxon Christi
anity, and we must stand for it against
the very strong and dangerous attack
ofsultra montsnism, which has taKen
advantage of our divisions to Danish
the Bible from it, and then with savage
But we must go deeper. We
must seek not only to keep this
or that external institution. We must
strike at the root of sin in the heart.
Cooperation in promoting vital, in
tense, personal piety is one great need.
In the west, in small towns, several
churches, by their competitions, afford
a spectacle to make the devil laugh and
angels weep, and in cities this need of
union is equally great. Our divisions
have impoverished our love for man,
and ultramontanism often fails to ad-
minister to the want it creates and
fosters, and leaves to us Protestants to
feed and clothe. The church makes a
magnificent and imposing show of
caring for the poor, but it is hollow and
unreal. We have been miserably and
selishly divided, and hence our weak
ness.
Rev. DR.. Gladon, of Columbus, O.,
said unity in evangelical labor is good,
if we do not break the allegiance of in
dividuals to a particular church. A
man converted in q church will, on an
average, do as much as three converted
in rink. a thing much less demon
strative is better. The best parts of
towns and cities have twice as many
churches as are needed; the poorer far
too few, and so of the competition of
many sects in new towns, we must
frankly admit the essential quality of
the Christian churches. We must stop
the competition of the Kilkenny fair
sort. We must recognize the peril to
our industries, and TO the government,
if the present widespread discomfort
develops into anarchism. We thus
throttle that by law, but We must use
prevention to keep it from coming to
that. The unreasonable demands of
the workingman. must, as far as pos
sible, be modified by reason and
love, and this only the church
can do successfully. Churches
must repent of their abandonment of
the poor districts and then go and do
works meet for repentance. They
should colonize with some of their best
families and not merely build
mansions. This is work that cannot be
done by hired men, missionaries, or
theological students. Your money is
needed, but you are needed still more.
The venerable Phillip Sehaff, ID,
was introduced as one who was a father
Oh the AlIl6DCe, anu one VINO dS Oeeu d
most active worker for It's ends. He
spoke but a few moments when the ses-
sion closed in order that delegates
might attend the Presidents reception.
At the afternoon session, Josiah
Strong, Do, addressed the ccngrega-
ton. He was followed by Frank Rus
sell, DID, who read paper on Co
operation in Small Cities"
individual Responsibility Growing
out of Perils and Opportunities, was
the subject of the evenings discussion.
Rev. DR.. VaHdyke, of New York, said
that danger is not to be apprehended
from outside influences, but from fat
supine-inertness, within the church.
The perils of our country is from citi-
zens who do not care enough about it
to vote. Short speeches we're also made
by others. Adjourned sine die.